Casa de la Moneda

Introduction

The National Mint of Bolivia (Casa Nacional de la Moneda) in Potosí is one of the city's most important colonial buildings and museums, built in the 18th century to strike silver coins from the Cerro Rico mines. The present structure, rebuilt in 1759 in Baroque masonry around a central courtyard, served as the Spanish royal mint and was once the core of global silver coin production. The museum displays colonial minting machinery, coin dies, religious art, colonial furniture, indigenous and miner life artifacts, the famous painting \"Virgen del Cerro\" and Andean Baroque canvases. It comprehensively shows how Potosí's silver powered the global colonial economy, making it an irreplaceable site for world economic history from the 16th to 19th centuries and Latin American colonial history; inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage in 1987.

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